Kitchen Garden.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 1 November 1890, Page 2

Kitchen Garden.

The largo leaved Chicory of Wit"o..f is a plant which, as far as we knoie is very little grown in this part of the Wfirld, it is, however, a useful vegetable and may bo used when blanched instead of Seak tie. The sded may now bo sown in drills about 15in apart, leaving a 1 out 6ia be tween the plants. The ground should > c light and woll manured. In Autumn the roots may be lifted and stored thickly together in the ground under some light protection. In forcing, the same treatment is required as for Seakale, placing a large tie round the leaves as they get large enough, and forcing in a warm dork place. They are very useful to the | lovers of a good salad. .*s Peas come into bloom pinch the joints out of the sh ots, which stqs their upward growtli, and causes the pods to fill nut. A sowing of French Beans and e\ on Runners may now be made. It appears as if this year, the practice of sowing both Peas and Beans iv trenches would he m »ie than usually advantageous, as it permits the application of both witter and iiquM manure in the easiest manner. Like the Peas, these Heans ure much improved by pinching off the tops whn they have attained about 3ft in height. Clear Raspberry- plots of weeds, and, and if possible give » dressing of soot. If the soil be. not

ric'i a dressing of m -nure may be g ver., r.3 Saspbrrcs ♦••quire rich food and plenty of moit-ture. Timely disbudding «nd stopping of string sh'H-ts in order t<- equa ise growth in fruit trees, is an imp -riant operation and should not be n g ected. Much judgement is requisite to k ow how to disbud pr< pe-ly ; and the operator .up! be •.-uidfd by the kind of I -nit tree, the f 'rm it is desired to take, so : l, and climate. A safe rul<> to follow i? to thin out the shoots, o that no one of t'«em wil- overlay an-ther; nr, in other /words, each shoot fchou d have full exposure to light. Of the advantages of constant use of the hoe throughout the wkole extent of the garden, too much cannot be said. In a dry season, like the past, and it appears only too likely the future, its advantages are inestimable -Exchange.